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One of the choices Elie has to make toward the end of the book is when...

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:12:47 PST

One of the choices Elie has to make toward the end of the book is when he is in the hospital ward because of an infection in his foot. They hear the rumblings of Allied bombs dropping and learn the camp is to be evacuated. Elie and his father need to decide whether or not to go or stay behind. Due to various accounts of what happens, Elie is nervous to stay behind because he believes it will lead to both of them being killed. So he and...

Assuming that you mean when Elie's father is near death, Elie struggles...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:21:18 PST

Assuming that you mean when Elie's father is near death, Elie struggles with whether to follow another prisoner's advice to take and eat his father's food in addition to his own. The reasoning is that Elie's father is most certainly dying, and the extra food might sustain a healthier Elie. However, this decision is extremely difficult because Elie's relationship with his father has changed drastically. He goes from being embarrassed and...

What choice do Elie and his father make near the end of Night?

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:28 PST

What choice do Elie and his father make near the end of Night?

How did you react? The entire book is deeply disturbing, but I think...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:52:10 PST

How did you react? The entire book is deeply disturbing, but I think most heartbreaking in this chapter is Juliek's death and the smashing of his violin. It is the death of a beautiful spirit and the producer of beautiful music. On the other hand, poor Juliek is finally set free and is able to play any music he wants for as long as his heart is content to play it since he is no longer trapped on earth with human tormentors.

Chapter 5

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:54:33 PST

How did you react to this chapter?

This chapter certainly focuses on Elie's change. Things are important...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:34:08 PST

This chapter certainly focuses on Elie's change. Things are important that didn't used to be...for instance, when Elie and his father were first separated from the rest of the family, they pledged to be together no matter what. Loyalty to family is all that matters. In this chapter, we see that Elie is pulling away from that. He is angry with his father, not Idek, for the beating which takes place in this chapter. He is distancing...

Chapter 4

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:19:20 PST

how did you react to chapter 4 i want to know what you thought??

The Nazis most definitely treated the Jewish people as less than...

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:38:19 PST

The Nazis most definitely treated the Jewish people as less than human. The Nazis doctors experimented on the Jewish people in an attempt to create a "perfect" superior race of man. The Nazis also crammed the Jewish people in to cattle cars to transport them from place to place, or they forced marched them. If one of the people fell or went to the ground they were killed. When Elie arrived at Auschwitz he saw bodies of killed Jews...

In the book "Night" by, Elie Wiesel, did the Nazis dehumanize the Jews...

Thu, 4 Jun 2009 22:17:09 PST

In the book "Night" by, Elie Wiesel, did the Nazis dehumanize the Jews or treat them with compassion?

The only things that Elie took interest in were his bread and soup. ...

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:48:48 PST

The only things that Elie took interest in were his bread and soup. This is stated in the book at the very end of the section where Elie describes his encounter with the camp dentist and explains how he managed to keep from having his gold crown extracted. He writes, "Bread, soup--these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time" (Wiesel 50). ...

The narrator tells us that he "took little interest in anything except...

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:50:42 PST

The narrator tells us that he "took little interest in anything except my daily plate of soup and my crust of stale bread" (63). This is consistent with Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which tells us that we are not able to care about anything unless our basic needs for food and shelter are taken care of. The narrator has shelter, so he is reduced to his most basic need of food. He is no longer really a person at all, and describes himself...

What were the only things in which Elie took interest in chapter 4 of...

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:30:21 PST

What were the only things in which Elie took interest in chapter 4 of "Night"?

What were the only things in which Elie took interest?

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:28:12 PST

I have looked throughout chapter 4 and have still not found it.

Elie compared the world to a cattle wagon, hermetically sealed.

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:25:29 PST

Elie compared the world to a cattle wagon, hermetically sealed.

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Tue, 2 Jun 2009 03:52:33 PST

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In actuality, not all of the prisoners are able to reach...

Fri, 29 May 2009 08:14:29 PST

In actuality, not all of the prisoners are able to reach reconciliation. Elie does not. In Chapter 3, when he witnesses the infants being thrown alive into the fire, he states that his faith was consumed forever. As the memoir continues, Wiesel continues to give further examples of his loss of faith. In contrast, some are able to maintain their faith. For the most part, Elie's father Chlomo does. He does not rebel against God, and...

In the novel "Night" the Wiesel family as well as the other Jewish...

Tue, 19 May 2009 10:39:41 PST

In the novel "Night" the Wiesel family as well as the other Jewish people were expelled on the Sabbath. As devout Jewish people their Sabbath day begins on Friday night at sundown and continues through Saturday night at sundown. During this period of time the people do no work or unnecessary activity of any kind. The Jewish people believe that this is time for reflection, rest, and worship of their Lord. They were forced to gather all...

In the novel "Night" what day of the week was Elie and his Family...

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:35:30 PST

In the novel "Night" what day of the week was Elie and his Family expelled?

How do the prisoners in Night, including rabbis, reconcile their agony...

Mon, 18 May 2009 20:59:59 PST

How do the prisoners in Night, including rabbis, reconcile their agony with their faith?

From the beginning of the novel, Moshe is described as being "physically...

Sun, 17 May 2009 20:20:35 PST

From the beginning of the novel, Moshe is described as being "physically awkward" and poor. Ellie says, "Moshe the Beadle, the poor barefoot of Sighet, talked to me for long hours of the revelations and mysteries of the cabbala." The cabbala was considered a standard for Jewish study. In fact, Ellie's father tells him to stick with the Talmud. Therefore, because he is poor and his beliefs, he is already somewhat suspect by the members of...